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Leonard Cohen, among the most elegant and precise of songwriters, follows in this tradition with a number of tracks in which he or his backup singers vocalize La La, Dum Dum, and other (ahem) non-lexical vocables. Traditional Deck The Halls: Fa-La-La-La-La, La-La-La-La.
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More about that in a moment.ĭo Dum Dum Dum, De Do Dum Dum – Nonsense Syllables In Leonard Cohen’s Tower Of Song While the above photo, taken in Montreal by Leslie Py Wener, makes a case for a confectionery theory of the genesis of those syllables, 2 Mr Cohen himself attributes that phrase to another singer-songwriter. Echoing Barry Mann’s metaphysical query, “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp),” 1 is the question of the origin of the “Dum Dum” – an essential component in the key “Do Dum Dum Dum, De Do Dum Dum” refrain of Leonard Cohen’s Tower Of Song.